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Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond discusses Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City at the 2017 National Book Festival
Born1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)[2]
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Academic advisorsMustafa Emirbayer[1]

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist who is a professor in the department of sociology at Princeton University.[3][4]

Education

Desmond studied as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, serving at the same time as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe.[5] He graduated with B.S. degree, summa cum laude in communications and justice studies. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[2][6] He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.[7][8][9]

Honors

Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.[2][10] He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for his work about poverty, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.[11][12] His 2017 Pulitzer Prize citation read, "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."[13]

Works

  • Desmond, Matthew (2008). On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14407-8.
  • Emirbayer, Mustafa and Matthew Desmond (2009). Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780072970517
  • Emirbayer, Mustafa; Desmond, Matthew (2015). The Racial Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-25366-4.
  • Desmond, Matthew (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016. ISBN 9780553447446
  • Desmond, Matthew (2018). Why Work Doesn’t Work Anymore. New York Times Magazine, Page 36, September 16, 2018.

References

  1. ^ Desmond, Matthew (2010). Eviction and the reproduction of urban poverty (PhD). University of Wisconsin-Madison. OCLC 732383033.
  2. ^ a b c Bill Glauber. "'Genius grant' winner Matthew Desmond made in Madison, Milwaukee". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September. 30, 2015.
  3. ^ https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/matthew-desmond
  4. ^ https://scholar.harvard.edu/mdesmond/home
  5. ^ Jennifer Schuessler. "A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes", The New York Times, February 19, 2016.
  6. ^ "Alumnus Desmond wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Evicted'". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Matthew Desmond". MacArthur Foundation. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Matthew Desmond | Department of Sociology". Sociology.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  9. ^ "Strong Pulitzer showing for Harvard". Harvard Gazette. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Mustard Seed Foundation » List of Fellows". Msfdn.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  11. ^ "Video: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Announcement". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  12. ^ Calvin Reid (March 17, 2017). "Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Win 2016 NBCC Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  13. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown)".


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